Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?

Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.